The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 25, 1900, Page 7

Tedwgay =l C. Gl PECIAL 24 INCH TAFFETA SILK in Curt U he Lace C¥ COLORED CALI 1t at 50 cents each GENTS' FURNISHI HEAVY ND DRAWE lar value. C. CU 911 and 913 TH 280 DRI O L DR ORI O OO nqmé 911 and 913 Market Street, The Family Store. For This Week! All remnants of dress goods have been placed on table front of en- trance and will be closed cut at 23 per cent off marked pric 25 pi 30-inch All-Woo! el’s Hair Homespun, good value for 63 cents, for this week 50 ts per yard LACE CURTAIN f BABY BLANKETS at 50 cents a FANCY DEPARTMENT ALL-SILK RUCHINGS. in all shades, former price 25¢ and 35¢ a yard, IFFON DRESS TRIMMINGS, braid center, 12}4 cents LK AND LACE JABOTS, former price $1.25 and $1.50, to be 'EIGHT SANITARY UNDYED WOOL Established 1862. RTIN. BARGAIN all colors, 50 cents per vard. | | | | | DEPARTMEN just we have opened three cases AM CURTAINS, in the latest de- 1.25 a pair 0 a parr. » and $3.00 a pair. 2.50 and $3.00 a pair | FORNIA WOOL BLANKETS. NG DEPARTMENT. at elastic through- its per seam ment. RTIN, Market Street. § g é | § § § | g AMUSEME~TS. 4 ¥ : nig v ng Sun.) Matinee Sat R 5 Y‘\ '.lk.(}..‘ JX“t} ) N'nllb[,'\ ‘K\ :‘.A;H)JDH THE W1 TER'S TAL COMING THICK. LAST NIG: WANTS TO THEY ARE | 5 biEN THIN PA GHTER AND ¥ her B ¥ dy “THE CUCKOO.” GRAND OPERA-HOUSE. ats ¥ MAIN 3 pere., THE QUEEN'S LACE HANDKERCHIEF! est and the City cCcro. RITM ER. ALCAZAR THEAT TO-NIGHT ! Bel, Y Henry Character Pla CHUMLEY ! ronounced a4 Stccess at the New York, > an LORD eum Theater, AATINZE SATUZDAY AND SUNDAY. Phone Main 2 Seats by B e e e e e e e Palace and : { Grand Hotels % For neariy 4 quarter of a csntury the - ding hotels on the Macific Coast. . h added orovements and con- . ences they continue to be the head- ¢ Guarters for fcurists and travelers vis- iting Ban Francisco . JOHN C. KIRKPATRICK. . Managér. D Y 3 THIS EVENING, D L RS AMUSEMENTS. S POPULAR PLAY HOUSE.) (THE PE FHONE SOUTH 770. NIGHT. SATURDAY NI ORMANCE AT GAY: CONEY ISLAND. POPULAR PRICES, 35c. 50c and The. and Sc. Matinee, 15c, v and Original HALF. o a Farce Comedy HiS BETTER | urer, | the patronage they asked for. | to make the selections. | Monday, | Judges, and. it HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1900. + POLITICS AND PATRONAGE - PHELAN WANTS TO NAME ALL THE EXTRA DEPUTIES Organization Must Be Cared For. — POLITICAL DEBTS UNPAID LA POLICE JUDGES AND COUNTY CLERK HOLD OUT. e The Auditor, the Recorder, the Treas- the County Clerk and the Police Judges will not be allowed to appoini the extra clerks they need unless his Honor Mayor Phelan has the naming of them. The Mayor needs that handy bunch extra positions to make good his prom- ises of four places each to the eightecn Assembly districts of the eity, and he proposcs to have them, or there will be no appointments. In other words, Mayor Phelan is ar- rogating to himself a power which the charter does not give him. That instrus ment provides that, when additional clerks are required in any department, the head of that department shall &c no- tify the Mayor, who shall Investigatc the | ease and report to the Bupervisors, who, If they sce fit, shall authorize the ap- pointments prayed for, which leaves the appointing power solely in the hands of the head of the needy office. Mayor Phelan announced to the Suver- visors on Monday last that the depart- ments mentioned had called upon him for extra help, but that he had not had time to look into the matter. His Honor did not say, however, that he had been in- | formed of the need of.extra clerical force | fuily two weeks beforehand and had been put in possession of faets and figures proving the necessity. Nelther did he vouchsafe the information that, to thcse who came to him to discuss the matter, he gave scant courtesy unlesg they came bearing gifts of all, or a major portion, of artment officlal who has dis sed” the proposition with the Mayor been given to understand that the “organization” should have a hand..and a strong one—in the naming or the clerks very ¢ | to be so employed, if the Mayor should recommend them to the Su- pervisors. Upon that point the Police Juages ana \'oumi- Clerk Deane stood out. They were willing to accord the “or- ganization” something handsome if 1t should be demanded, but they wanted the selection of most of their own deputies. They needed clerks of ability and did not care to trust the so-called “organization’ The case is the ame_ at the present time as it was on when his Honor had not had time to consider.” Deane and the Police s said, Auditor Wells, are holding out for their own appolntments. and there is likelihood that-there will not be any clerks hired until they see the error of their way and hand out the par- cel the “organization” defands. see fit to Public Works Orders. A communication was read yeésterday at ADVERTISEMENTS. My- Ne Bok, Finely illustrated and FREE to those seeking | BEST SHOW IN YEARS PAPINTA, the Mirror Dancer. JANES 0. BARROWS, LANCASTER & CO., | gitimate Com- um Stage. WL & CO. in “‘Sun- a Musical Novelty. the Singing Song Writer, Others. All Big Hits. | 2 v, 10¢c; Opera | rved Seats, « and Box Seats. M Wednes TIVOLI GPERA-HOUSE. | “HOOT MON, IT'S NO FAIRY TALE!” THE GREATFEST SENSATION IN YEARS!! £ ERORMOUS COMID DrEEA TRIUMER. THE IDOL’S EYE . EVERY NING MATINEE SATURDAY! 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Chicago Tailoring Co., ?, 1816 Market 8t, ; 4 : RACING! RACING! RACING! 1800—CALIFORNIA JOCEKEY OLUB-—1800 January 22 to February 10, Inclusive. OAKLAND RACE TRACK. Racing Monday, Tuckday, Wednesday, Thurs. day, Friday and Saturday. Rain or shine, Five or more races each day. Races start at p. m. sharp. Ferry-boats leave San Francisco at 12 m. and 12:30, 0, 2, 2:30 and 3 p. m. connecting with trains stopping at the entrance to the track. Last two cars on train reserved for ia- dies and their escorts: no lmkln{» Buy your ferry tickets to Shell Mound. Al trains via Oakland mole connect with San Pablo avenue electric cars at Seventh and Broadway. Oak. land. Also ail_trains via Alameda fole con- nect with San Pablo Avenue cars at Fourteenth &nd_Broadway, Oakland. These electric cars £o_direct to the track in fifteen minutes, Returning—Traine leave the track at 4:16 and 4:65 p. m. and immediately Rfter the last race. THOMAS H. WILLIAME JR., President. R. B. MILROY, fecretary. B. Libby, ex. Map of the Gold Fielasiot North- vestern Alaska compiled by D. GOLD FIELDS 2555 coverer of gold. For sale at 326 Plne st. Piles and ail Rectal cured no ; An Oriental Revelation. Phone for Seats... +vueereren PARK. 28] RUPTURE & the meeting of the Board of Public Works from Elisha Brooks, principal of the Girls' High School, in which he siated that the engine In the building is out of order. Mr. Brooks asked for authoriza- tlon to dismiss the pupils until the neces. sary repairs for proper heating had been made. John Bartnett. Superintendent of Public Buildings, was directed to inquire into the matter. A resolution introduced by Commis- soner Mahoney was adopted providing | that no officer, clerk or employe of the | board shall recommend #ny person for positions in the gift of the board. A notice was ordered sent to the su- perintendents of street railroads notify- ing them that the fleld assistants of the Bureau of Streets have been instructed to | inform them of needed repairs on those portions of streets required to be main- | tained by the roads —_—————— Court Reporters’ Demands. The City Attorney has advised Treas- urer Brooks to continue in his course of rejecting demands of court stenographers, which have not been approved by the Auditor and which 0 not otherwise conform to the proyvisions of the charter. The City Attorney in hls opinion says: “The charter has made provision for a salary of $200 per month to heJmltl to each of such stenographers engaged in criminal departments of the Superior Courts of this city and county. This salary is by express language declared to be in full compensa- tlon for services as a stenographic report- er and for transeription, SUPERINTENDENT FILES CLASSIFICATION REPORT MAXES RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE SCHOOL BOARD. Pressure in Certain Districts Should Be Relieved—Petition for Re- moval of Sunnyside School Considered. At the reguiar meeting of the Board of Fducation yesterday Superintendent Webster presented hig final report on classtfication: in which he also made cer- tain recommendations. He stated that there was a class of more than forty re- cefving pupils in charge of a substitute at the Starr King Primary School. The last board had not authorized the per- manent establishment of the class until it could be ascertained whether the pu- pils should not be assigned to the Whit- tier Primary. This introduces the mat- ter of district lines of the Lincoln, Jef- ferson, Longfellow, Whittler, Starr King and Stanford schools. The report con- cludes: A consolidation of classes could be effected ai the Lincoln School so that Miss Hill could be transferred to some other school at her own request. Additional accommo- datlons are needed in the Golden Gate Pri- mary, where there are over seventy puplls in the fourth grade. The district lines r the Richmond School should be considered Theré ure twenty-seven pupils awalting ad- missfon in the class which now numbers elghty-one. The Park Primary should be utllized to relieve the pressure at the Rich- mond. The iifth grade of the Le Conte School {s without a regular teacher. Mi H. Slavan was tranaferred from the Cleveland Primary to the Hawthorne Primary and secured a leave of absence until she can be assigned to & second grade. Mise Amelia Kalleher, whose leave of absence had ex- pir is entitled to reinstatement in the evening schools. A petition was received from the Sunny- side District Progressive Improvement Club and referred to the Board of Public Works, for the removitl of the Sunnyside School to Flood and Circular avenues. Gustave Schnee said that the children are menaced by fire in the present school and that the seating accommodations are in- sufficient. The application of Mrs. Irene M. Reeves for reinstatement as teacher in the High School, from which she was removed April 35, 1599, was placed on file. Ch man Mark stated that Mrs. Heeves Waived her rights and was not now i tha department. Madison Babeock filed an application for appointment to the principalship of ths Edigon School, made vacant by the death of Mise Chalmers, Resolutions were adopted thanking Mayor Phelan for his donation of $1000 for a library in the Girls' High School; also abolishing the title of principal in the fol- lowing one-room schools: Hunters Point, J. W. Taylor, Ocean House and CIiff, House. ~Also electing J. J. Gallagher as a regular teacher in the Mission High School from January 1, 1900, and request- ing the Mayor to extend an invitation to County Superintendents of Schools to at- tend the next biennal convention In this city e_transfers of Miss J. G. Maher from the Franklin to the James am- mar and Miss Annette D. Miley froms the James Lick to the Franklin® were re- voked. Mrs. Elizabeth Butler, principal of the Jackson School, was instructed to take charge of the fourth and fifth grades and Mrs. M. A. Hogan the second grade in that school. ————————— COURT NOTES. Warren Main, who killed Willlam Ken- nedy in a saloon at 232 Third street on September 21 last, was placed on trial be- fore Judge Cook yesterday on a charge of murder. Main pleads self-defense. Eight jurors were secured to try the de- fendant and the box will be filled to-day and the taking of testimony proceeded with. The Congregation Shaari Zedek has ap- plied to the Superior Court for leave to mortgage the church at Stockton and California streets. In the petition it is stated that the French Bank holds a noto against the edifice for $5000 and funds are desired with which to llquidate this obli- gation. P The application of Mrs. Nettie R. Craven for a_family allowance from the estate of the late James G. Fair was con- tinued by Judge Troutt yesterday. A dep- osition made by Mrs. Craven in 1896, which counsel wish to use in the presentation ol petitioner's case, is missing and although coples are in existence which can be used 1f necessary, another search will be made for the original before the hearing is pro- ceeded with. ——————— WANTS SCOTT APPOINTED. Friends of Tax Collector Petition the Mayor to That End. A petition hae been prepared for presen- tation to Mayor Phelan by the friends of Tax Collector Scott requesting that ke be appointed to the office to which he was elected in the event of the Supreme Jourt upholding the decision of Judge Seawell declaring that Scott's election was iflezal because he was not qualified under the charter by a five years' residence in the city, Several thousand names have l- ready been sccured to the petition, which reads as follows: Hon. James D, Phelan, Mayor of San Francisco—8ir: Whereas, the voters of this city, by a preponderoting majority, did at the last election express their con- fidence in, and preference for, Jolmp}! H. Scott for the office of Tax Collector,” and whereas the election of sald Scott td said office has been set aside in the Superior Court on account of a purely technical ineligibllity, and whereas further, neither Mr. Scott’s ability, integrity or competency has at all been called into question, and the ineligibility complained of now exists no_longer; Thereforé we, the undersigned, electors and taxpayers of San Francisco, respect- fully petition and urge you to appoint said Scott to the office of Tax Collector. in com- pliance with the expressed Wishes of t| MORE GOOD POSITIONS DISTRIBUTED |Board of Health Will Swing Its Ax. AFTER MEAT et MILK FOR THE PUBLIC INSTI- TUTIONS MUST BE TESTED. g The Board of Health met last night and proceeded to fill & number of positions in the Almshouse and City and County Hos- | pital, besides several other places under its immediate control. No action was tak- en regarding the Chief Market Inspector and his assistants, but a special meeting will be called in the very near future to swing the ax in that department. The following is the list of the appointments made last night, together with the month- ly salaries accompanying them: Two food Inspectors, at a salary of §75 per month, George Dunster and J. Willlamson. Steward of Insane Detention Hospital, at $60, R. J. Cullen. Clerk of Emergency Hospital, at $0, F. Hol- land. Taxicologist at $50, C. F. Morgan. Laundryman at City and County at $50, C. H. Lane. L Shoemaker at Almshouse at Martin Her- ter; tailor at $40, T. Mulroy; !w'(r‘n«l lc;\r.ns(fl,r at $40, Frank Farcada; baker at $60, B. Crow- ley. Hospital, Night watchman No. 1 building, Almshouse, at $50, C. 1in. Day’ polic Almshouse at $50, A. D. Tur- ner; night police at $0, John Cadametre. Nurse No. 1 building, Almshouse at §i0, Mrs. Beall; second nurse at §3, Miss M. Campion. Night nurse for women at Almshouse, at $30, Mrs. B. C. Armstrong. . Chilef cook No. F. Lafforgue; second cook at $40, Marcus Man- uler; third cook at 335, M. Marion. Stewardess, Almshouse, at $3, Loulse Bur- feind. Nurse, No. 4 building, Almshouse, at 30, Miss I. 'Nickson; night nurse at $30, Miss Mar- guerite Kerr. Cook, No. 4 bullding, at $30 a month, Miss Annle Burfeind. Cook, No. 2 building, at $60, V. Sauret. Nurse, No. 3 building, at §0, Thomas Kelly cook at 840, E. J. King. Day watchman, No. 3 buflding, §0, D. J. Bas- | tible. Night watchman, No. 2 bullding, 350, Doepfener. 5 First engineer, Almshouse, 38, Herbert R. Smith, assistant engineer, $5, F. Reese. Apothecary's helper, City and County Hospi- tal, $10 a month, G. W. Noble; assistant apoth- ecary’s helper at $10, W. F. Rummell Assistant matron, Clty and County Hospital, $10 a month, Mrs. M. J. Osterhouse; chief sur- glcal dreseer at §75, James O'Connor: assistant surgical dresser, $50, J. M. Campbell; two assistant surgical dresse erlock: assistant to dresser at §10, R. Wil- tine; night superintendent female nurses, $30, Miss L. Strand; ambulance dri $40, J. F. Johnson; messenger, W Tyson day gatekeeper, $40, Collin night gatekeeper, 3§40, Meeha relief gatekeeper, 13, E. J. Foy: night watchman, §0. David Sacger: assistant machinist, $3), Doyle; machinists’ helper, $5, T. Honabers first waiter, $40. A. Roper: second walter, 3%, T, Meyer; assistant waiter, §15, W. Carlett; third waiter, 25, C. E. John- son; assistant, $15, Richard Tobin; first cook, c W. Leahy; third ok and butcher, Gallagher: baker' as . $7 50, laundryman, $40, C H. Bogart; sécond laundryman, 330, T. Mc Manus; third laundryman, $3), M. Hamiett; fourth and fifth laundrymen, $10 each, Charles Brown, J. Sarsfield; chambermald, $%5, Knosh® head d tender, 33, B. E. van Straeton: assistant ward tender. $15, 73 Ryan: ten assistant ward tenders at $ per month, and ten additional ward helpers at $5, to be appointed by superintendent of the City and County Hoaspital: first kitchen helper, $2 P. O'Mall porter, $12 50, James Barne hostler. $15, ' Frank 'Walsh: heiper, general operating room, 3 50, F. Doherty: nurse's as- sistant $10, R. C. Parrott; mattress maker. $10, M. Sullivan; assistant, $, L. Kavanaugh; sec: ond kitchen helper, §15, P. Teyssier; four din- Ing-room helpers, ' §7 each, F. Taylor, P. O'Connor, W. Tuselman, F. Clark; male morgue tender, §$10, H. M. Fingley: female morgue tender, $10, Miss Maud Hill; cleaner, $10, A. Kincker; coal passer, 815 Charles Genth; relief orderly, $19, J. F. Dunn; orderly to medical wards, $10, J. Santry; night orderly, 8§10, P. Fay; twenty-elght pupil nurses, $10 each, incumbents. Resolutions introduced by Dr. Bazet were adopted and provide that on and after May 1 no milk will be received at any of the public institutions under con- trol of the Board of Health unless it is the product of cattle which have been subjected to the tuberculin test and have | thus been shown to be free from tuber- culosis. A copy of the resolutions will be forwarded to the Board of Supervisors, with the request that this specification in reference to the tuberculin test be em- bodied in all contracts for milk let by that board. The resignation of Mrs. Hannah Mc- Connell, matron of the Harbor Emergency Hospital, was accepted and Miss Lucia Brown was appointed to the vacancy. The salary of the farmer at the Alms- house was increased from $75 to $100 a month, and that of teamster from $40 tc $60 & month. PERSONATED AN OFFICER. George Neustadt, a Dishonorably Dis- Charged Marine, Arrested for Intimidating Women. George Neustadt, a dishonorably dis- charged marine, appeared In Judge Con- lan’s court yesterday on the charge of personating an officer. He asked for a continuance till to-day and it was granted. Neustadt has been wearing a bogus star and representing himself as ‘‘detective No. 2" to women, with the object. it is supposed, of extorting money from them. Tuesday he called upon Addie Reitz in the Carlton House and told her that her brother was gnlni to send her a box of poisoned candy. He took the girl to_the Larkin street corridor of the City Hall and kept her there for two or three hours. He returned to the Carlton House that night and was chased by a male friend of the girl along Turk street, where he was captured by Policeman W. Coleman. About ten days ago Acting Chief Biggy received a letter from Colomel Maus of the Marine Corps at Mare Island stating that Neustadt was representing himself as a naval officer and that he was “a scoundrel and unmitigated liar.” He was arrested in Oakland about a year ago for defrauding people. He deserted twice and served two sentences of six months each and was dishonorably dis- charged last month. -—— FOUND DROWNED. Body of an Unknown Man Recovered and Taken to the Morgue. The body of an unknown drowned man was found yesterday afternoon floating in the bay near Lombard street wharf by Charles Hodge of 330 Vallejo street. The body was taken to the Morgue and the clothing was searched, but nothiug was found in the pockets. On the sec- ond finger of the right hand was a heavy gold ring with 2 cameo setting. The dead man was about six feet tall and stoutly built. The features were so much decomposed that it was impossible to the end that no further doubt may exist as to the legality of his tenure of office, and that all litigation concerning the same may be brought to an immediate termination. —————————— ROGERS DEAD IN LAW, His Widow Given Judgment on a _ Policy on His Life. A jury in Judge Hunt's court yesterday decided that Hiram Rogers, who myste- riously disappeared while on a vovage from this city to PolrtlHn;lfur;l on the nta Rosa, Is legally dead, and :tl::-lnfire %:anhatmn Life Insurance Zom- pany must pay his widow, Marla T. Rog- ers, the sum of nsfl)oom-y held by the do- ceased, $5000 and 30 interest thereon. The insurance company claimed that Rogers was not dead, but in hiding, and it resisted payment. Mrs. Rogers’ proofs Sackion of the Jury. however, and jadg- " udg- ment was rendéred accordingly. - to see what they had looked like, except that the nose was rather small. The teeth were white and regular, almost per- fect. The clothing was a dark plaid suit, laced black shots with large vellow eyeholes, white woolen underwear. black necktie, neglige shirt with a thin line running mrnugfi it. The hat was not found. Commission Investigates. Messrs, McCarthy, Everett and Freud of the Civil Service Commission, accom- panied by Chief Examiner Moran, made the rounds of the County Clerk's office yesterday. The members of the commis- sion ned considerable information from County Clerk Deane and his depn- ties, which will be again asked the depu- ties' when they come up for examination in the near future. As the business of the County Clerk is vi complicated, it is probable that several more visits will be made by the commission before the ex- amination day arrives. INSPECTORS | 1 building, Almshouse at 360, | Robert at M0, E. Flover, R. | POPULAR STUDIES arse: Dr. Cook, Dr. Contributors to this co . Mable, Dr. Albert S. Scudder aad others, XI. RICHARD III | master of himself and all his faculties. The crown once atta: his passion is sated and a decay of his powers sets in { that hurries him to his doom. His head- long energy of mind gives way, he loses his self-command and power of dissimu- | lation; he is no longer the decelver, but | the deceived. And t nner change takes place at the very moment that he has reached the goal and steps beyand it to the perpetration of his blackest crime—the murder of his innocent | nephews. When he discloses his purpo: to Buckingham and t to willing hither | accomplice of his villainy ters, Rich- {ard cannot conceal his anger. He at once | Insults his strongest supporter and lets | him ge untouched to head a rebellion This 18 not the Richard who at the first sign of opposition swept Hastings to the | block. Later on, although he suspects Stanley of being secretly in league with Richmond, and openly charges treachery, he actually sends to levy forces to repel the in spect the ion very forces that at Bosworth turned the tide of victory for Richmond. | The fourth scene of t fourth act seems especialiy designed cay of Richard's powe an almost perfee ring of Anne. But rison of the two scenes ¢ at we have here not a repetition, but a contrast. In the first we can see Anne yielding step by step; In the second zabeth is un- moved to the very end and meets all | | Richard’s pleas with the simple answer, | “You slew my children.” Only when he | stoops to a scarcely iled threat against | the life of the Princess does she give way. | But in the very next sc pledging her daughter’s I ne we find r nd to Richard's JUNIUS BRUTUS BOOTH AS | rival. And even if the poet had not gi us this plain hint—which, by the w Colley Cibber turned into a stage asi at the end of the woolng scene—it s quite incredible that at this stage of the | Shakespeare would have presented t in a weaker form a repetition of the w ing of Anne. It is the peripetia of the play. Richard i ching to his doom old is powers of mastery and insig into the mind are lost, and Elizabeth's feigned yielding deceives him as he had once deceived £o many other: | ! Richard is a born soldier; in the solilo- quy that opens the play we seem to hear the very god of war breathing forth con- tempt for the weak piping time of peace. | But on the eve of his I battle Ric | ard’s soul is overshadowed by gloomy | forebodings. ' 1 have not that alacrity of spirit, | Nor cheer of mind, that I was wont to have. | _His last sleep on earth is broken Ly visions of his murdered v ims. We may pass over the apparition of the ghosts, & scene £o crude and archaic that here. | | anywhere, we might suspect the prese of a less skiliful hand than Shakes- peare's.gBut in the soliloquy that f the poef®displays his full power. Here see most cl rly_the utter ruin of the old !s:lf-mnr-u ¢ of Richard. He starts from | a dream of death *“in the los * | borne down by the flying,” and turns sa | agely upon himself: O coward conscience, how thou didst affright | "In the period of his success it was Rich- | ard’s mastery of his conscience that hal made him so irvesistible, but now he is a house divided ainst himself, and wkile there is no word of penitence there is a fearful recognition of his lonely state. | 1 shall despair. | And if I die, Even in himself he finds no pity, and the | ghostly voices of his wictims ringlng in | his ears from the realm of sleep foretell his doom. Yet Richard is not doomed b cause .he has such dreams; rather he dreams thus because he Iis already doomed. Only when the trumpets blow the onset does the old heroic spirit of him who_was once the champion of the house of York awake. His self-confidence returns and | he charges with the cry of victory upon his lips. In the battle he enacts more | wonders thana man, and when he is over- | powered by numbers he falls with the battered emblem of royalty about kis temples. Even in death he holds the crown: | A Dream of Historic Nemesis. | There is no creature loves me; | no soul shall pity me. “Richard III. we have shown, =/ the drama of a single character dominat- | ed by a single master passion. But it th something more than thi It is drama of Nemesis in history. Evil Richard is, he is the instrument of d wrath, the scourge of God upon a generation. With but one exception, Rich- ard’s victims are guilty souls, and even the princes pay the penalty of their fath- er's sin. Queen Margaret, whose appear- ance at the courts of Edward and Rich- | ard is of course utterly unhistorical, 1s the embodiment and mouthpiece of this spirit of Nemesis. She appears in but two scenes—in the first to Invoke a curse upon the guilty house of York and its sup- porters; in the second to triumph in the Complete fulfillment of her brayer for vengeance. Her words to the Duchess of York sum up the historic moral of the play: with me; 1 am hungry for revenge, B mow 1 loi me with beholding it. ever had England fallen so low as | du’l’"ng the Wars of the Roses. Simple bloodshed and deceit were the slightest of men's crimes. A shock was needed | to clean the air, and Richard, the incar- | nation of the sins of his age, came like a thunder-storm upon an atmosphere over- charged with guilt. But when his violence Was passed the judgment of God was ac- complished and a better day dawned for ‘England. In the marrlafe of Richard and Elizabeth the houses of York and Lan-| caster were united, and during the reign of their descendants England rose from the anarchy of civil war to the pitch of\ pride she held in Shakespeare’'s day. And we may well believe that the poet poured J out his own heart in the fervent prayer Faward Dowden, Hiram Carsen, | Note—The first installment of Dr. Par- | pott’s paper was published on Monday | 1ast. | The Fall of Richard. ]\ Richard's fall is not brought about by | * external Like his rise to power, it is due inner self. So long | as the go cfore his eyes he was | | sche im with | & RICHARD | tainment which netted su STUDY OF SHAKESPEARE'S “RICHARD IHL” Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. IN SHAKESPEARE. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr Hamilton Vida D. of Richmond, with which the play close: that God would at the edge of traitors and enrich the time to come with smooth- faced peace. The Text of “Richard IIL.” Into the vexed question of the text of Richard 1117 this is not the place to eriter, but so much may be stated, the was first printed as a quarto in 1567, reappeared in this form five times before the -publication the first folio. are based, with a few on the first, which pre- supérior to that of the litions of Shakespeare's on the other hand, the text his drama in the first folio varies so y from that of the quartos as to sug- gest that it was based upan a wholly dif- erent manuscript. The question which of represents the authentic work of Shakespeare has recefved varying an- swers. The Cambridge editors see the iand-of an unknown reviser in both, but, on the whole, prefer the quarto text. On other 1 acute Shakespeare ar, Sy after a most amination the problem. to on that text repre~ careful £ the sented the result of Shakespeare's own latest revision dents wishing to pur- ¢ue this matter further are referred to Spedding’s paper in the “Transactions of the New Shakespeare Society’ (187 rgill's reply to Spedding in the s ction to the to to the and Fieags \kespeare.” reprints of the quar- the New Shakespears ay also be consulted. Princeton University. Dr. Drandes’ Estimate of “Richard III. hard of the tragedy is deform- undersized and crooked, has a ump on_ his_back and a withered arm. He is not, like 30 many other hunch- backs, under any lusion as to_hi o The ed; he pearance. He de not “think himself handsome, nor is ke loved by the daugh-~ ters of Eve, in whom deformity is 80 apt to awaken that instinct of pity which is akin to love Richard is himself mal- ated by nature; from his birth up- ward he has suf- fered wrong at her hands. and in spite of his high and strenuous spirit he has grown up an outcast. He has from the first had to do without _ his mother’s love and to listen to the gibes of his enemies. Men have pointed at his shadow and laughed. The dogs have bark- el at him as he halted by. But in this luckless frame dwells an ambitious soul. Other people’s paths to happiness and enjoyment are closed to him. But he will rule; for that he was born. Power is everything to him —his fixed idea. wer alone can him his revenge upon _the people around him, whom he hates or despises, or both. The glory of the diadem | rest upon the head it crowns his misshapen body. He sees bisd golden splendor afar off. Many lves between him and his goal, but he shrink from no falsehood, no treach- no bloodshed if only he can reach it. Into this character Shakespeare trans- forms himself in imagination. It is the mark of the dramatic poet to be always able to get out of his own skin and into another's. Questions for Research and Review. 1. Do the incidents of this play seem to be presented for the sake of the plot, or in order to exhibit an extraordinary char- acter? Richard’s character represented as ¢ oping, or i3 it fixed n the play opens? Poes Hichard's character. ap seen in this play, fulfill the delineation given in the closing portion of “King Henry VI, part 3? 3. What' is_the keynote of Richard's character? What nis chief characteris- tic? Is it ambition, dissimulation, love of kedness for its own sake, artistic villainy, executive ability misdirected? 4. Has Richard any excuse, true or false, for his crimes? Has he reason to hate tims? What is his supreme crime? . Humor is usually a sign of soul- health. How is it with Richard's humor? What effect does his humor produce on the reader? 6. Does Richard at any time show fear, sensibility, conscience? 7. Does the wooing and winning of Lady Anne seem plausible or probable? Do you find it revolting? What does Rlchurd" success in the wooing of Anne imply? Granted that act I, scene 2, does help the play, is act IV, scene 4, necessary? 8. What supérnatural element is there in this play? What does this element add to the force of the play? Did Shakespeare belfeve in ghosts? 9. Does anything come of Queen Mar- garet's curses? Supposing this curse- Scene omitted, would the subsequent course of the play have been different? 10. Does sufficient calamity overtake the wrongdoers of the play? Does Richard pay full penalty? 11. Are_all of the instrumentalities by which Richard's downfall is brought about good in themselves? 12. How does womanhood appear in this play. How does motherhood appear? 13. 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